Cluzaud: Oceans Thierry Bisch: "Delete?" The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Awards Since 2008, the prince has presented awards to key figures for their exemplary action in favour of the environment and the protection of the planet, in each of the foundation's three priority fields of activity: climate change, the preservation of biodiversity, access to water and the fight against desertification. “I wanted to create these Awards to lend my support to the exceptional women and men who have made a personal commitment to save our planet.” declared the Prince at the first edition of the event. Prizewinners have been: 2008: Alain Hubert, Jane Goodall and Sunita Narain 2009: Edward Osborne Wilson, Marine Silva and Pan Yue 2010: James Lovelock, Peter Hamilton Raven and Malin Falkenmark 2011: Gretchen Daily, Andràs Szollosi-Nagy and David Suzuki 2012: Jean Jouzel, Sir David Attenborough and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) 2013 International Council for Science (ICSU); the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR); John Antony Allan and Jane Lubchenco 2014: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (Climate Change award)); International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species (Biodiversity award); Ma Jun (Water award) 2015: Bill McKibben (Climate Change award);Emmanuel de Merode (Biodiversity award); Loic Fouchon (Water award) 2016: Laurance Tubiana (Climate Change award);Luc Hoffman (Biodiversity award); South African Water Research Commission (Water award) Organization The Prince Albert II of Monaco consists of a board of directors, an executive board, a scientific and technical committee, an ethics commission and a development committee. Board of directors The board of directors ensures that the foundation's goals are achieved by taking all the measures necessary. It is entrusted with: Ensuring that all the foundation's goals are taken into consideration, Enacting the general principles and provisions necessary for the foundation's activity, Establishing and evaluating the annual action program, Managing the budget. Executive board The foundation has an executive board composed of a president, a vice president, a secretary general, a treasurer and two administrators nominated by the board of directors. The purpose of the executive board is to supervise the foundation's activities. It administers day-to-day business and implements the decisions of the board of directors. Scientific and technical committee The scientific and technical committee ensures that the foundation's positioning is transcendent, and furnishes its expertise when selecting projects to be supported by the foundation. It is entrusted with: Ensuring scientific and technical monitoring in conjunction with its